“From Avocation To Vocation: How We Turned Our Hobby Into A Career” With Jennifer Hinton and Thayer Sylvester of Carve Designs

An interview with Phil La Duke

Find Advisors who have experience in your industry. Even if you have a disruptive business idea, it helps to have people with expertise on your side. They might just prevent you from making a big mistake. We didn’t have a group of advisors, and I always thought we would have gotten through some of the growing pains faster with some experienced people on our team.

As a part of our series about entrepreneurs who transformed something they did for fun into a full-time career, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jennifer Hinton and Thayer Sylvester. Jennifer co-founded Carve Designs in 2003 with her lifelong friend Thayer Sylvester. As Creative Director of the Mill Valley, California company, she manages the brand’s design team and drives the vision and direction of the product line as well as the company’s catalogs and website. Inspired by travel and trends, the ocean and coastal living, Ms. Hinton has helped guide the…